Nick Foles threw a touchdown when a hit caused his collarbone to form a 90-degree angle in Week 1, 2019. The Jaguars had dumped Blake Bortles a few months earlier and a sixth-round pick from Washington State stepped in.

I remember the mustache like it was yesterday. When Proust ate that stupid cookie, I was transported back to seeing the Raiders roster.

It was an amazing story: The guy refused and held a clipboard in Nick Saban’s “Alabama” for Mike Leach’s “Washington State.” He clenched. The Jags took him on a whim in the sixth game. He played off and on for the Jags for two years. Traded for a sixth-round pick. A man full of people; the heir of the BOAT.

They made so much merch. Hyperion (RIP) brewed a beer. There was a mustachioed cat. There was a song. There was this weird porn offering (this is a link between the Florida Times and Union). In the dying embers of Doug Marrone’s career as an NFL head coach on some bad (though it would get worse, Urban!) teams, there was something something hold onto.

I thought he was with the Eagles? The Colts? In his 13th year at Liberty University? The Oakland Las Vegas Raiders?

Well, he has a broken collarbone and won’t start, but someone named Aidan O’Connell will. It’s a shame that Rich Gannon, Jason Campbell or Connor Cook can’t step in. I’m in the minority who found Derek Carr useful.

The Raiders are Las Vegas in many ways: I like the idea of ​​being there for two days or playing two Thursday games a year before I get tired of it. The Davis family had been trying to escape Oakland for decades. It was always either LA or Las Vegas. Unfortunately, the Kroenke and Spanos of this world were too fast for the city where Anthony Kiedis had no partner.

The Davises won. Las Vegas is the perfect sports market: sports betting, tourists mingling with Raiders fans dressed like Power Rangers villains and avoiding being the Rams’ villainous little brother. But the Raiders were the second to reach the promised land of Henderson, Nevada. The NHL did it first, and the Golden Knights, who won the Stanley Cup in their first year of existence and won it six years later, will forever be a Sisyphean mountain for the Raiders to climb in the hearts of fans and tourists must.

At 2-12, the Raiders are terrible. Antonio Pierce, a Super Bowl-winning linebacker and somehow the longest interim head coach in NFL history, is haunted one state away by the phantom of Deion Sanders. Plus, they can get Shedeur! The Raiders love blockbusters: look at Jerry Rice, Randy Moss, Gannon and the signing of Lane Kiffin. Jon Gruden counts his $100 million on the Barstool couch. Deion probably did enough to convince Davis that it could work.

Every NFL owner holds a mirror up to Shad Khan and says, “Okay, it’s not that bad.” I like Mark Davis’ hair. He looks like an Anglo-Saxon prince. His bangs form a perfect half moon. A hairdresser I know said he manages to look both five and 90.

Mark Davis’ father, Al Davis, was a true maverick and meddling owner himself, but his only crime was recruiting the fastest players he could. He also drafted JaMarcus Russell, who definitely wasn’t.

I’ll take either Davis over Dan Snyder any day. This list extends to Jerry Jones, Dave Tepper and Madden fan Woody Johnson. Shad Khan doesn’t have Tik Tok teenage sons secretly running his organization, a story that was annoyingly late for my preview last week.

Tony Khan, an adult, can rest assured that Fulham and the AEW are doing well.

However, I don’t like it. The Raiders are worsening the Jags’ draft position, even after a tough 32-25 loss to the New York Jets and Doug Pederson’s Benedictine 30-second vow of silence when asked how Mac Jones can play better.

Brian Thomas Jr. is this season’s William Jennings Bryan with the silver linings. He’s more silver than Geralt’s sword and an 18th century aristocratic dinner party. He is the best rookie receiver in the league and would have a fair title as Offensive Rookie of the Year if it weren’t for Jayden Daniels or Bo Nix. BTJ is breaking franchise records everywhere. The path is open for him to become a Jaguars legend.

The Jaguars only have the hapless Colts (6-8) and Titans (3-11) left. The Jaguars share a 3-11 record with four other teams behind the Raiders and New York Giants (2-12), and the Jets and Chicago Bears are 4-10. With all that said, there’s a chance the Jaguars could move as high as 10th due to the weak remainder of their schedule.

So much depends on the search for a coach.